Anti-Homophony Effects in Dakelh (Carrier) Valence Morphology

In Dakelh (Carrier), as in many other Athapaskan languages, valence prefixes and “inner subject ” prefixes interact in a complex pattern involving a combination of consonant deletion and/or fusion and, in certain conditions, what looks like epenthesis. In this paper we investigate this apparent epen...

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Main Authors: Suzanne Gessner, Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
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http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/gohansson/pdf/gh_bls30_dakelh.pdf
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Summary:In Dakelh (Carrier), as in many other Athapaskan languages, valence prefixes and “inner subject ” prefixes interact in a complex pattern involving a combination of consonant deletion and/or fusion and, in certain conditions, what looks like epenthesis. In this paper we investigate this apparent epenthesis effect, which is